Opponents

As long as you pick and choose what you are not about, it's pretty easy to get by.  Once something catches you in the sweet spot of available resources, passion, need, want, desire, right timing, and call of God, you got problems.  Now you have to declare what you are about and you are going to make people mad.  Because there are people that aren't about that.  

Usually people will identify into a few categories:

1. Brothers and sisters in arms.  They are in the fox hole with you.  They are in.  You can run by their house and commiserate following the difficult people who are now decidedly against this new way you are talking about.

2. Supporters.  They like the sound of the idea.  They hope you do well.  They like you.  Always have.  If you need their help, they are there for the most part, unless it interferes with something else they have going.  

3.  Skeptics.  "Really?" they ask.  Not going to work.  Won't work.  Already tried it.  Didn't work.  You are wasting your time.  Body language: limpese.  shruglish.  eyes rollian.

4.  Opponents.  I'm against you.  You are messing with my thing.  I'm not changing.

The funny thing as long as they aren't terrorists, the opponents are what will make the idea work and keep you sharp.  You might scrimmage with the skeptics, but they won't challenge you to go the distance and discover whether or not your thing is the real deal or not.  

Got opponents?  Be grateful.  Don't necessarily try to "keep them closer than your supporters" or whatever.  But don't try to avoid them.  You might learn something from them that will make the supporter a brother or sister in arms or the skeptic a supporter.

Or it might make you an opponent to your own idea and lead you to a new idea.  And a new set of opponents.